Nicole Forsgren
Senior Director of Developer Intelligence @ Google
Creator of DORA and SPACE frameworks for measuring developer productivity. Author of Accelerate.
“Nicole Forsgren created the most widely used frameworks for measuring developer productivity—DORA and SPACE. She wrote the foundational book Accelerate and is about to release her newest book, Frictionless , a practical guide for helping teams move faster in the AI era.”
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Research | Partner | ~2022-present |
| GitHub (Microsoft) | VP of Research & Strategy | 2020-~2022 |
| Google (DORA) | Research & Strategy Lead | 2018-2020 |
| DORA | Co-Founder & CEO | 2015-2018 |
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“Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, MSR is Microsoft Research.”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“Yes, absolutely. It ends up being much, much safer.”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“But I will say they've remained fairly consistent. So really quickly, I'll share the elite performance. So deployment frequency, you can deploy on-demand, lead time for changes takes less than a day. ...”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“Right. General categories are fine. Now I will say the next category for lead time for changes by the day is if lead time is between a day and a week.”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“For high between elite and high. Elite is less than a day, and high is between a day and a week. And then it goes between a week and a month and between a month and six months, right. So you can ask p...”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“And by the way, they do not collect your name. They do not collect your info. There's no lead, lead gen, anything. Everything's just there. And then, there's deep dives into every single one of the ca...”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“Number of... Still every month I get email about this.”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“So for satisfaction, I would generally ask, right. Go ahead and ask now the ones that you instrument, you can instrument and pull out of systems all the time, right. Go ahead and grab that string. For...”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“Yeah, probably about a year by the time we get-”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I'll add a link for that. Also, if anyone is doing some of this work now, if they have major questions that they would love to [inaudible 00:45:00] me to answer if they hav...”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“I think if you're walking away from this podcast and you're like, "I'm already working on this, or I think this is a thing that's happening," I would say just go check your work basically, right. Has ...”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
“Yeah. Well, depending. Depending on how scattered things are.”
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren